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Look up: nostalgia

  1. nostalgia
    [n] - longing for something past
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Nostalgia
    Homesickness, especially a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia but also a longing for the comforts of home or to return home. In a military setting, this is probably shell shock or battle fatigue. It resulted in many soldiers being shot for treason as their illness lead them to becoming deserters
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  3. Nostalgia
    Nos·tal'gi·a noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... a return home + ... pain.] (Medicine) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/N/35

  4. nostalgia
    <medicine> Homesickness; especially, a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness. ... Origin: NL, fr. Gr. A return home + pain. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  5. nostalgia
    noun longing for something past
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Nostalgia
    • (n.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness. • (n.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. nostalgia
    nostalgia, nostalgic Longing for one's home or homeland is explained at nostalgia.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  8. nostalgia
    nostalgia, nostalgy, nostalgic 1. Longing to return home or to one's native land; homesickness. 2. A mixed feeling of happiness, sadness, and longing when recalling a person, place, or event from the past. 3. Originally a medical term for a severe melancholia caused by protracted absence from home. ...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  9. nostalgia
    Type: Term Pronunciation: nos-tal′jē-ă Definitions: 1. The longing to return home, to a former time in one's life, or to familiar people and surroundings.
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  10. Nostalgia
    The term `nostalgia` describes a yearning for the past, often in publisher =Basic Books | year = 2002 | location = | pages = xiii-xiv | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=7BbTJ6qVPMcC | doi = | ip = | isbn =0465007082-->--> The word is a learned formation of a νόστος-->...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia

  11. Nostalgia
    (Frampton film) `(nostalgia)` is a 38 minute 1971 film by artist Hollis Frampton (1936–1984). The film is composed of still black-and-white photographs taken by Frampton during his early artistic explorations which are slowly burned on the element of a hot plate, while the sound...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia

  12. Nostalgia
    (video game) `Nostalgia`, originally released in Japan as , is a role-playing video game developed by Red Entertainment and Matrix Software for the Nintendo DS handheld system. Initially released in November 2008 for Japanese audiences by Tecmo, an English version of the game was offic...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia

  13. Nostalgia
    (novel) First appearing in Romania under the name Visul ("The Dream") in 1989 with Cartea Româneasca Publishing House, having been mangled by censors, it appeared in its full form as `Nostalgia` in 1993 under Humanitas. It was thereafter translated into French, German. Hun...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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